Progress Toronto: A Conversation about Toronto and its Upcoming Municipal Elections in the Doug Ford era

York-Waterloo Early Career Professional Training Workshop in Urban Studies

Please join us for our annual workshop on adressing the unique challenges that early career scholars (Ph.D. students, post-doctoral fellows and junior faculty members) face in transitioning from specialized and individual research programs to academic and non-academic employment. This workshop is a joint enterprise between the City Institute at York University (Professor Linda Peake, City […]

Summer Inst. of Urban Studies - Singapore - July 15-19, 2018

Linda Peake (GenUrb's PI) and Elsa Koleth (a PDF with GenUrb) attended the Manchester Summer Institute in Urban Theory held in Singapore at the National University of Singapore in July 2018. [siteorigin_widget class="WP_Widget_Media_Gallery"][/siteorigin_widget]

Urban Feminist Methodologies Workshop - Mumbai

City Institute Research Assistant Wins First Place at CivicSpark Competition

This past weekend, Jamilla Mohamud participated in the CivicSpark Competition “Building Up the 6ix” where her team won first place. CivicSpark, which was founded in 2015 as a chapter of CivicAction, is an organization dedicated to empowering a new generation of city builders who can help develop creative solutions to real issues being faced by […]

SuburbsTALK: Featuring Lorenzo De Vidovich

The Major Collaborative Research Initiative Global Suburbanisms Presents: SuburbsTALK featuring Lorenzo De Vidovich PhD Candidate, Department of Architecture (Polytechnic University of Milan) Visiting Scholar, City Institute at York University March 20, 2018 1-2pm HNES 142

Members of CITY attended the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum

Members of GenUrb, including Linda Peake, Principal Investigator; Elsa Koleth, Post-Doctoral Fellow; and Cristina Temenos, Comparative Research Team, attended the UN-Habitat World Urban Forum (WUF9) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (February 7-13, 2018).  In addition to attended the Women’s Assembly and other panels, they presented at the following: Linda Peake, Panelist Women’s Visions and Practices for […]

City Seminar: Questions of Municipal Service Delivery in Asia

Questions of Municipal Service Delivery in Asia:  Why Do I Have Garbage, But Not Water? A Session From the Emerging Asian Urbanisms series Presented by the York Centre for Asian Research & Co-organized by the CITY Student Caucus Sarah Allen “Service Provisions in the Periurban Areas of Can Tho, Vietnam” & Faisal Haq Shaheen “Service […]

Grant Writing Workshops at the City Institute

Please join us for a Series of Grant Writing Workshops, facilitated by Linda Peake, Director, the City Institute, in Preparation for the SSHRC Connections Grant May 1, 2018 Deadline Connection Grants support workshops, colloquiums, conferences, forums, summer institutes, or other events or outreach activities that facilitate: disciplinary and/or interdisciplinary exchanges in the humanities and social […]

The City Institute’s Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group

Time: 2-4pm Location: 749 Kaneff Tower Please join us for the City Institute’s Feminist Urban Studies Reading Group in the Winter 2018 Term The dates and discussion topics are as follows: January 5, 2018 – with Linda Peake An Introduction: how has the feminist urban field evolved? February 2, 2018 – with Gökbörü Tanyildiz Social […]